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48'§ PICTURESQUE IMPROVEMENT- BOOK I- 



2. Parks where grandeur of character is the chief object. 

 Nothing can contribute so much to this effect as the wild, 

 forest style of breaking the ground and planting trees, shrubs, 

 low growths, furze, bramble, plants, ferns, &c. and • shew- 

 ing roots, decayed trunks, rocks, or stones, when they may 

 appear with propriety and apparent fortuitousness. The animals 

 grazed should be chiefly deer, wild cattle, and horses. Parks 

 are the prominent features of all extensive residences; and 

 were this appearance of wildness and forest scenery given to 

 them, words could not convey an adequate idea of the beauty 

 and grandeur that would be communicated to them and to the 

 country at large. I have already offered a few hints on this 

 subject under low growths, wild plants, &c. and shall add a few 

 more under planting ; these being the chief materials by which 

 the effect -is produced. But nothing can give an idea of what 

 these effects might be, except looking at the finest passages of 

 forest scenery, few of which now exist in the country. In New 

 Forest, and that of Needwood, there are still select passages 

 which every true admirer of nature will view with rapture and 

 enthusiastic delight, and which no picturesque improver can 

 examine without reflecting, or exclaiming, "What beauties, 

 would not be added to the already beautiful park of Donning- 

 ton, to that of Blenheim, Croome, Dunkekl, Barnbugle, and, in 

 a word, to all those esteemed the finest parks of the kingdom, by 

 imitating such scenery V The cold inquirer will say, Would 



